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J. FULLER. GAR COUPLING- I PatentediAprQ'l, 1885 WITNESSES: INVENTORi ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' JEFFERSON FULLER, OF HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent lN'o. 315,401, dated April '7, 1885.

Application filed October 9, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEFFERSON FULLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Huntington, in the county of Oabell and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings, of which the following is a description.

This invention relates to that class of devices which are intended to couple cars auto matically, and it has for its object to arrange the link-pin to fall in place at the right time without the use of springs, and to manage the pin from either side or from the top 0 the cars.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts forming a car-coupling, hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an end elevation of a car, showing my invention; and Fig. 2' is a longitudinal vertical section of the coupling on a larger scale.

A represents a freight-car.

B is the draw-head attached in any usual manner to the car. The mouth of the drawhead is flaring or hopper-shaped to direct the approaching link into it. The lower side, 0, of the throat is concave or trough-shaped to assist in guiding the link into a central position.

D is the link-pin,which may be of the usual cylindrical form, and be slotted to receive a fixed pin to prevent its removal from the drawhead; but I prefer to make the pin rounded on one side and flat on the other and cut away at one corner, E, except at the lower end, and I use in connection with this cornered pin a stop pin or screw, F, to engage the remaining corner below the cut-away E to prevent the removal of the pin, yet permitting the pin to rise and fall in its hole enough to admit and hold the link G.

H is a perforated latch through which the pin D passes on its way downward. This latch is pivoted at its lower forward corner, I, and it is so thick that while the lower face of the latch rises the upper face in the region of the pin-hole moves forward. When the latch falls of its own weight into its normal position in the path of the link, as shown in Fig. 2, the pin is supported on its upper side When a link enters the draw-head, it pushes the latch up close in front of the pin-hole.

out of its way, thereby bringing the pin-hole in the latch under the pin, and allowing the pin to drop through the latch and through the l link, thus holding the link.

K is a lever loosely hung in long loops L, which are attached to the sides of the car. The lever is provided with shoulders M to prevent its removal from the loops L.

N is a cord connecting the link-pinwith the center of the lever K. The lever, extending to the sides of the car, en ables a person to raise The cord 0 extends from the pin to the top of the the pin without going between the cars.

is too much out of line with the pin-holein mit a pin to be forced through it.

What Iolaim as my invention, and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combinati0n,with a draw-head, a linkpin, and means for supporting it in the draw:

the top and bottom of the draw-head to perhead when raised, of a lever extending across the end of the car, two rods, L, attached to the car forming loops to hold the ends of the lever loosely, shoulders upon the lever in-Y creasing its thickness to bear endwise against the said rods or loops, and a rope or chain.

connecting the middle of the lever with the link-pin,substantially as shown and described.

JEFFERSON FULLER.

I Witnesses:

J 015m B. FLOWERS, GEORGE Disco.

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